Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo #foliosociety ISBN: 9780571382316

ISBN: 9780571382316

teenage life' OBSERVER'A wonderful and deeply moving book' MARK HADDON'Reveals adolescence's unwritten rules' JO BRAND

but will vengeance heal their pain

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Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo #foliosociety ISBN: 9780571382316Moby Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross dressed female sailor'Brilliantly written ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare 'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle